Employees (also referred to as "donors") may not always be able to produce a urine specimen for urine drug testing upon arrival at the collection site.  When this occurs, the employee is allowed three hours to provide a specimen, and can consume up to 40 ounces (5 cups) of water while they wait.  This is sometimes referred to as a "shy bladder", and the collection site will use separate documentation to assure the proper procedures are followed for each donor.  There are other circumstances which would require that another specimen be provided, such as a specimen that is out of temperature range, or appears to have been tampered with.  In any of these cases, the patient is allowed three hours to provide another specimen as above or be considered a refusal to test if no specimen is provided.  Click here to read full article. 

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